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Arts & Entertainment

Antje Menikheim (left) lead scenic painter for Sunday's 95th Academy Awards, and scenic artist Michael Thomas prepare Oscar statues for the event, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, near the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles
Media
Movies
National
Performing Arts

How does Oscars voting work? This is how winners are decided

Final voting takes place not too long before the ceremony and is done completely online. For most categories, it's pretty simple.

2 years ago

mathematician Ben Zauzmer poses at a stadium
Movies
Pennsylvania
Performing Arts
6abc

Upper Dublin mathematician is incredibly good at predicting Oscar winners

Last year, Ben Zauzmer accurately predicted 19 out of 20 categories.

2 years ago

The glass-enclosed-deck is shown at the Kimmel Center.
Architecture & Design
Music
Philadelphia

After his death, architect Viñoly still guides the future of the Kimmel Center

Rafael Viñoly, 78, died after a long and prolific design career. He still has a “voice in the future” of his concept for the Kimmel Center.

2 years ago

Flowers arranged in a wall
Philadelphia
Sustainability
Visual Arts

Black Girls Florist makes history at Philly Flower Show

This year’s show, the Garden Electric, is being held at the Philadelphia Convention Center with new and recurring exhibitors from around the world.

2 years ago

A close-up of children performing, wearing all green for St. Patrick's Day.
Things To Do
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Visual Arts

St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Patti LaBelle, Oscars Night Party, World Cafe Live Beer Fest in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

March 9-12: “The Simon and Garfunkel Show” in Del., World Cafe Live Beer Fest in Philly, and Patti Labelle in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

2 years ago

Listen 5:30
Looking east toward City Hall from Eakins Oval.
Elections
Philadelphia
Politics

Next Philly mayor should ‘believe in the possibility of the arts,’ cultural leaders say

Today, the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is releasing a paper with five recommendations aimed at the 10 mayoral candidates.

2 years ago

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hris Rock appears at the Television Critics Association Winter press tour in Pasadena, Calif., on Jan. 9, 2020
Movies
National
Performing Arts
TV

Year after the slap, Chris Rock hits back in new special

The 58-year-old comedian on Saturday night performed his first stand-up special since last year’s Oscars.

2 years ago

Life sized blooms that look like something out of a Dr. Seuss novel stand tall along the promenade at the 2023 Philadelphia Flower Show in the Pa. Convention Center
Architecture & Design
Outdoors
Philadelphia
Visual Arts
Billy Penn

The Philadelphia Flower Show returns indoors for a show that’s out of this world

After two years in FDR Park, the exhibition is back at the Convention Center with a new spark.

2 years ago

Lebohang Kganye looks at her patchwork cloth re-creation of a black and white photo of her great-grandmother
History
International
Philadelphia
Race & Ethnicity
Visual Arts

2 South African artists converse across the apartheid timeline at the Barnes

The Barnes Foundation hosts work by two artists: one making work since apartheid, the other growing up in post-apartheid South Africa.

2 years ago

A woman looks at several blocks hanging in the air in the art exhibit.
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Museum for Art in Wood introduces Philly to the Islamic mashrabiya screen

The traditional wood screens made in ornately geometric patterns for Islamic palaces and mosques are given the modern art treatment.

2 years ago

Candidates for mayor of Philadelphia raise their hands when asked who has a TikTok account. The question came during a forum on the performing arts and cultural economy at the Kimmel Center. The candidates are (from left) Jeff Brown, Jimmy DeLeon, Allan Domb, Derek Green, Helen Gym, David Oh, Cherelle Parker, Maria Quiñones Sánchez, and Rebecca Rhynhart. (Emma Lee/WHYY)
Elections
Government
Music
Performing Arts
Philadelphia
Visual Arts

Mayoral candidates discuss Philly arts sector at Kimmel Center forum

A mayoral forum at the Kimmel Center asked nine candidates about how to fund and leverage the arts to address city problems.

2 years ago

A player throws a basketball inbounds to her teammate during a basketball game.
Delaware
Economy
Sports

‘Pump up the economy’: Elite college women’s hoop tourney draws 25,000 fans to Wilmington

The multipurpose sports complex opened in 2019 and is home for the Blue Boats, the 76ers minor league team. The facility expects 2 million visitors and users this year.

2 years ago

Listen 1:20
Wayne Shorter, photographed in 1985. (David Redfern/Redferns)
NPR
Aging
Music

Wayne Shorter, sage of the saxophone, dies at 89

Wayne Shorter, the 12-time Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer and the creator of one of the singular sounds in contemporary jazz over more than half a century, has died.

2 years ago

Models pose before walking the runway.
Things To Do
Community Events
Food & Drink
Music
Performing Arts

Philadelphia Flower Show, Philly Fashion Week, First Friday at the Barnes, and Trombone Shorty in this week’s ‘Things To Do’

March 2-5: Trombone Shorty in Del., Philadelphia Flower Show, and Haddonfield Restaurant Week in South Jersey are among weekend event highlights.

2 years ago

Listen 4:24
A woman speaks into a microphone onstage. Mural Arts logos are visible behind her.
Philadelphia
TV
Visual Arts

‘Abbott Elementary’ will give Mural Arts Philadelphia a moment in the spotlight

This week’s episode of the sitcom set in Philly is based on Quinta Brunson’s childhood memory of creating a mural at school.

2 years ago

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